I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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